Magic Meteor

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A certain type of Applied Phlebotinum in giving powers. Here new superpowers come from above, literally. A meteor falling from the sky gives powers to a person. Either they're hit by it or exposed to it in some way.

Futari wa Pretty Cure begins with a meteor shower that brings Mepple to Earth. Mipple came the same way a hundred years prior.

Meteor Strike (a one-shot by Nobuhiro Watsuki who drew Rurouni Kenshin) literally has a boy's head impaled with a meteorite which grants him superhuman powers.

The Apocalypse Virus in Guilty Crown came from a fragment of a meteor that landed in Japan. The virus immediately infected the first person who touched the rock, who was Ouma Mana.

The Original Life Fiber in Kill la Kill, which altered a certain group of apes when it landed to evolve to become intelligent enough to craft complex cloth and lose enough hair to need to wear clothing that it could hide its fibers in.

In Yu-Gi-Oh!, a giant meteor of orichalcum crashed near the city of Atlantis, which proved rich in mining and technology but slowly turned the inhabitants into most of the monsters that the Egyptians collected and Pegasus transmuted into Duel Monsters trading cards. There's also a special collector's card made from fusing a blank card with a piece of orichalcum meteorite, which has the power to activate a specialized playing field.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, certain powerful cards fall from the sky in meteor-like tablets, including the Meklord Emperors and Yusei's Shooting Star Dragon. These cards are later revealed to be sent by Z-one, the enigmatic Greater-Scope Villain of the series, and the meteor tablets are presumably his delivery system (when Z-one himself duels near the end of the series, he uses similar giant tablets in lieu of proper cards).

Deadly example found in Mobile Suit Gundam Crossbone Ghost, where an asteroid was found that contains a virus that can turn human in to black goo.(and the said goo is just a large amount of the virus.)

In Toriko, Gourmet Cells first arrived on Earth several million years ago on a meteor. Said meteor is a Planetary Parasite that now takes up 70% of the planet's surface as what is known as the Gourmet World.

Comic Books

In the DC Comics comic book Ball And Chain, a fighting couple both get bathed in strange phlebotinum from a meteor and get superpowers.

Hector Hammond, a Green Lantern comic book villain, found meteor rocks and used their powers for evil.

DCU villain Vandal Savage gained immortality from sleeping next to a magic meteor.

Marvel heroine Firebird got her (fire-based) powers from exposure to a meteor, that in a later story was revealed to be the dumped remains of a failed alien lab experiment which had accidentally landed on Earth.

Many powers in WildStorm can be traced back to the Comet Effect, an event in the 1970s wherein the mysterious radiation from a comet passing close to the Earth caused widespread mutations.

Black Condor's origin from the 1940's consisted of him being raised by wild condors from a young age and somehow simply learning how to fly. When the story was retold in Secret Origins, writer Mark Waid added a panel showing a passing meteor, to at least give it some kind of explanation.

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Film - Live-Action

My Super Ex-Girlfriend involves a meteor giving the titular character her powers. She also turns blonde and gets a magical boob job.

In the movie The Meteor Man (it might have been a comic book too), a guy named Jefferson gets hit in the chest with part of a meteor and gets powers. To be more precise, the meteor chases him around a corner and into an alleyway.

Used in Chronicle where a mysterious crystaline object found at the bottom of a crater gives three teenage guys telekinetic powers.

Subverted in Creepshow; Jordy Verill (Stephen King) finds a meteor, which proceeds to turn him into a walking shrubbery.

In George A. Romero's original Night of the Living Dead (1968), a space probe carrying a "mysterious cosmic radiation" from Venus blankets said radiation over a third of the US, which then causes the dead to come back to life and, y'know, start eating people. Not a meteor per se but close enough.

This is the entire foundation of the Wold Newton Family, a massive case of Canon Welding by Philip Jose Farmer. In 1795, a meteor struck outside Wold Newton, Yorkshire. In our world, it was just another meteorite with no particular unusual properties (the stone can today be seen at the Natural History Museum in London). However, Farmer proposed a scenario where radiation from the meteorite changed the reproductive DNA of the passengers of a passing carriage. As such, their offspring were gifted with unusual levels of intellect and/or strength, resulting in extraordinary individuals such as Doc Savage, Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow and other iconic charaters from early science-and pulp fiction.

Live-Action TV

In Van-Pires, the four teen heroes get the power to transform into cars by a meteor.

That's So Raven has Eddy get powers for one episode by a meteor passing that only does once in a while.

Superman himself may not count but in Smallville the Monster of the Week was often a "meteor freak," i.e. got their power from exposure to Kryptonite.

In Power Rangers Dino Thunder, it turns out that the meteor that killed the dinosaurs was one of these. Presumably it would have given them superpowers had it not destroyed their entire ecosystem first with the impact. Pieces of it are the Mineral MacGuffin that give the Rangers their powers.

There was a later meteor that wackily rearranged the Rangers' personalities. Trent seemed normal when affected by it, but the next time the White Ranger powers overtook him, he remained himself and helped the other Rangers defeat the Monster of the Week. It didn't last.

In The Flash (2014) and Legends of Tomorrow, Hawkman and Hawkgirl got their Reincarnation and Winged Humanoid mutation from an Nth metal meteorite that fell at the moment of their first deaths in Ancient Egypt. Vandal Savage also became immortal from the same meteorite. In Legends of Tomorrow, it's revealed that the meteorite, and others like it, were sent to Earth by Thanagarians in order to prepare the planet for an Alien Invasion.

Mythology and Religion

In Islam, the Black Stone inside the Kaaba of Mecca is presumed to be a meteorite that fell from heaven, and forms an important part in the pilgrimage ritual.

Tabletop Games

The Dungeons & Dragons book The Complete Arcane features a prestige class called Green Star Adept, which is basically a living being transforming into a living golem by consuming pieces of a comet.

The Mutants & Masterminds book Mecha & Manga offers a setting where a comet deposited crystals on Earth that are the source of all of the world's super powers.

In Poptropica, Super Power Island's objective is to capture six villains after the prison is hit by a glowing green meteor. The meteor powered up the criminals, who are now running around with super powers.

The Chaos Comet from Illusion of Gaia apparently gives off a type of magical radiation. Being bathed in the comet's light had been known to give people anything from psychic powers to horribly mutating them into demons. At one point, it's mentioned that "The Ancients" had enough understanding of the comet's powers to outright create living things, like camels and the Dark and Light Knights. The comet also ended up causing these civilizations to fall, since "evolving too fast brings destruction". It seems to return once every 800 years, however.

In Final Fantasy VII, if Sephiroth lived to see his gigantic rock crash into the Planet, the massive damage it would cause would have granted him the powers of a god. This trope is only averted because the heroes stopped him.

Since the Zodiacs of Etrian Odyssey III gain their magical abilities through studying the stars, it's hardly surprising they can learn a Meteor spell. Simply learning it takes a lot of investment, however, and the spell itself is the most expensive one they can learn.

You die next to it: Your spirit gains super powers like telekinesis, teleport-swapping similarly-shaped objects, the ability to instantly travel anywhere via telephone lines or the ability to turn back time for brief periods.

You are killed by it: Additionally to the former, your body turns immortal and indestructible by being timelocked at the moment of your death, but you are unable to feel any kind of sensation, exhaustion or pain and can leave and reenter the body at will.

The early Penvellyn alchemists from The Curse Of Blackmoor Manor believed that a meteor found by their ancestor had magical powers. More recent generations may not have believed this, but kept up the tradition of guarding it as a family secret.

In Terraria, every night Fallen Stars will crash down like meteors in random places. You can collect them and craft them into an item that will permanently increase your maximum Mana pool (which is the only way to get a Mana pool in the first place), and if you're lucky, they can also hit enemies while falling and do 999 damage to anything, including bosses that you can fight outdoors. They can also be used as ammunition for a special type of gun, and do the most damage of any type of ammunition in the game. Actual meteors have 50% chance of falling offscreen after the next midnight whenever you destroy a Shadow Orb and 2% chance of appearing every midnight afterwards and any location that has at least 50 meteor blocks in close proximity spawns unique flying enemies. The resulting meteor ore can be crafted into various items, including the aforementioned star-shooting gun and a rapidly-firing laser pistol which gains infinite ammo with a full set of meteor armor.

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sozin's Comet is a celestial object which passes close enough to the world to become a huge and powerful source of fire every 100 years, providing an enormous boost of power to Firebenders. The fact that it heralded the genocide of the Air Nomads (and attempted genocide of the Earth Kingdom) also marks it as a Comet of Doom.

An episode of Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers began with a meteor falling to Earth, splitting into two crystals, one of which goes to the hero, the other to the villain, giving them both Rubber Man abilities.

Ben 10 starts with the protagonist finding an alien shapeshifting device crashed to earth like meteorite.

Real Life

On the night before a decisive battle during a civil war in The Roman Empire, Constantine the Great had a vision of a cross in the sky, which inspired him to convert to Christianity after winning the battle against great odds and seizing the imperial throne. From this point on, as emperor, Constantine tolerated and eventually promoted the new faith. Scientists have proposed that the cross Constantine saw may have actually been a meteor, a theory also detailed by the good folks at Cracked. In a way, a Magic Meteor may have increased the power of Christianity within the Roman Empire and eventually the rest of the world.

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